18. INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS
By A. N. Whitehead, Sc.D., F.R.S. (With Diagrams.) “Mr Whitehead
has discharged with conspicuous success the task he is so exceptionally qualified
to undertake. For he is one of our great authorities upon the foundations of the
science, and has the breadth of view which is so requisite in presenting to the
reader its aims. His exposition is clear and striking. Westminster Gazette.
19. THE ANIMAL WORLD
By Professor F. W. Gamble, D.Sc., F.R.S. With Introduction by Sir Oliver
Lodge. (Many Illustrations.) “ A delightful and instructive epitome of animal
(and vegetable) life. . . . A most fascinating and suggestive survey.”—Morning
Post.
20. EVOLUTION
By Professor J. Arthur Thomson and Professor Patrick Geddes. “A
many-coloured and romantic panorama, opening up, like no other book we know,
a rational vision of world-development."—Belfast Neivs-Letter.
22. CRIME AND INSANITY
By Dr C. A. Mercier, F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., Author of “Text-Book of In
sanity,” etc. “ Furnishes much valuable information from one occupying the
highest position among medico-legal psychologists.”—Asylum News.
28. PSYCHICAL RESEARCH
By Sir W. F.Barrett, F.R.S., Professor of Physics, Royal College of Science,
Dublin, 1873-1910. “ As a former President of the Psychical Research Society,
he is familiar with all the developments of this most fascinating branch of science,
and thus what he has to say on thought-reading, hypnotism, telepathy, crystal-
vision, spiritualism, divinings, and so on, will be read with avidity.”—Dundee
Courier.
31. ASTRONOMY
By A. R. Hinks, M.A., Chief Assistant, Cambridge Observatory,
in thought, eclectic in substance, and critical in treatment. . . ,
little book is available.”—School World.
“Original
No better
INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE
freshly
asily
relations
with philosophy, art, religion, and practical life.”—Aberdeen Journal.
36. CLIMATE AND WEATHER
By H. N. Dickson, D.Sc. Oxon., M.A., F.R.S.E., President of the Royal
Meteorological Society ; Professor of Geography in University College, Reading.
(With Diagrams.) “ The author has succeeded in presenting in a very lucid
and agreeable manner the causes of the movement of the atmosphere and of
the more stable winds.”—Manchester Guardian.
4i. ANTHROPOLOGY
By R. R. Marett, M.A., Reader in Social Anthropology in Oxford University.
“An absolutely perfect handbook, so clear that a child could understand it, so
fascinating and human that it beats fiction ‘ to a frazzle.’ ”—Morning Leader.
44. THE PRINCIPLES OF PHYSIOLOGY
By Prof. J. G. McKendrick, M.D. “ It is a delightful and wonderfully com
prehensive handling of a subject which, while of importance to all, does not
readily lend itself to untechnical explanation. . . . The little book is more than
a mere repository of knowledge ; upon every page of it is stamped the impress
of a creative imagination.”—Glasgow Herald.
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